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The Science of Intuition: How to Measure 'Hunches' and 'Gut Feelings'

By Cari Nierenberg — 2016

Whether you call it a "gut feeling," an "inner voice" or a "sixth sense," intuition can play a real part in people's decision making, a new study suggests.

Read on www.livescience.com

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‘I Listened to My Intuition—and I Beat Lung Cancer Twice’

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Intuition Never Lies

I now realize that a framed piece of paper saying that someone is a doctor will never trump a gut intuition.

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